Egyptian security forces raided a workshop in the Sinai peninsula they said was used to make rocket warheads, a security official said on Friday. Police found three rudimentary warheads and arrested a man during the raid in the North Sinai town of Sheikh Zwaid, close to Egypts border with the Gaza Strip.
"There were three warheads prepared, to be used for rudimentary rockets," said the official, adding police suspected they were destined to be smuggled to Gaza. A network of tunnels links Egypt with the Palestinian Gaza Strip, which Israel blockaded after the Hamas movement seized the enclave in a week of fighting in June 2007.
Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups in Gaza have regularly launched primitive rockets, made in Gaza, and more sophisticated Grad rockets into Israel. The tunnels are used on a regular basis for smuggling food and fuel. Israel, which fought a devastating 22-day war with Hamas in December and January, says weapons are brought through the tunnels.
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